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setting sun gets a red glow on it?” she said. ‘‘Well, that was what this thing looked like. Only this object was very mobile, moving almost out of sight, the bright glow diminishing to a small light. I’ve seen satellites before, but this was nothing like them. It moved so fast and maneuvered so quickly.” Her father, Walter Engstrom, said he also saw the same object. (Boone, Iowa, News-Republican, March 10, 1967.) 19. Kansas: Mr. Jake Jansonius of Prairie View, Kansas, was driving home about 10 P.M. Wednesday night ‘‘when the sky lit up and a bright blue object of some kind appeared.”” While he was watching it, it shot straight up in the air, and half of it turned fiery red as ‘‘three blazing tails reached toward the ground.’’ It moved to the west and then dropped down, out of his line of vision. He drove a short distance when ‘“‘the sky lit up poof in one big flash, and immediately ahead of me the saucer-shaped object began to spread apart—one half still blue, the other fiery red. As the distance widened between the two parts, a connecting band which appeared to be about one and a half feet thick formed, and while I watched, the object broke up and disappeared in a flash.”’ (Phillipsburg, Kansas, Review, March 16, 1967.) 20. Kansas: Several police officers in Marion, Kansas, watched an unidentified flying object Wednesday night between 8:00 and 8:30 P.M. Marion police dispatcher Sterling Frame and others viewed it through binoculars and stated it changed color: red, green and yellow. ‘They all agree they saw it. There’s no question about that.’’ (Marion, Kansas, Marion County Record, March 9, 1967.) 21. Kansas: “‘Around 9:00 Wednesday night, several Towanda youths were parked along the road northwest of town when they observed revolving red, white and blue lights flashing in the sky above the Wilson field in the vicinity of a city water well.’’ The boys fetched City Marshal Virgil Osborne, and he went with them to the area and viewed the lights himself. Osborne said, ‘‘The trees along the river were lighted up from the reflection as the mysterious object moved over them.” A line of cars led by Osborne followed the object as it continued its course without changing direction or altitude until it was out of sight. (Whitewater, Kansas, Independent, March 9, 1967.) 22. Kansas: Sheriff G. L. Sullivan and Police Chief Al Kisner watched a hovering object for more than an hour on Wednesday evening near Goodland, Kansas. They said the thing resembled a sphere from 12 to 14 feet long with an object attached to the bottom which appeared to be about 12 feet in diameter. There were three lights on it—red, green aed awa and amber. 22 / Operation Trojan Horse